The stupidest comment on your beer

[estricklin]

Bud ice is still around. I don't know about other cities but its pretty heavily advertised on the outside of liquor stores in Baltimores "nicer" areas

There was also a Bud Dry, which I can't remember what it tastes like. Back in the day, I loved Bud Ice though.

 

[Getzinator]

It must have been in the American Light category, because overall everyone was laughing at them. They had to bribe people to drink their beer at GABF this year with free shirts and hats and they literally wouldn't let you take one unless you drank a sample of PBR first. What a joke.

It's also not that impressive to me to say that they got a gold (did the best job of brewing that style) because those three companies literally invented the category. The style guidelines were written to specifically reflect the taste of those three breweries, so yeah, they probably should be the best.

Pabst isn't a light beer, to my knowledge. But why do you want a shirt of theirs so bad if you find it so appalling to drink one of their beers anyway?

 

[masonsjax]

There was also a Bud Dry, which I can't remember what it tastes like. Back in the day, I loved Bud Ice though.

Bud dry, for those that think regular bud is too sweet? It must have been a can of air. Oh wait, maybe that's what Mel Brooks is drinking in Spaceballs

 

[BudzAndSudz]

Well "American Lager" then.

I personally didn't want a shirt, but it was definitely amusing to watch people ask for a free shirt ad then hesitate when they were told they had to drink PBR first. Also, I personally don't mind PBR that much, but at GABF they were the last thing on my list of things to try.

 

[masonsjax]

Removing my finger-pointing rant. Must have woke up on the wrong side of a hangover

 

[Getzinator]

I can understand that. PBR is nice for drinking games, if that's what you're into. And I would likely not choose any BMC or Pabst equivalent at a place with a ton of beers I've never had before. Though I do enjoy me some free merch.

 

[Getzinator]

I can not believe this is an actual conversation. Let's not pretend these products are on the same level as craft beer. They are the fast food of beer. Yes some of us will drink them, and even like them, but they are specifically made as economically as possible, with the goal of selling large quantities. The focus is on marketing, and the only reason they show up at competitions is to take advantage of more marketing opportunities. Yes it takes skills to brew at that scale and consistency, that doesn't make it a gourmet product. Some of you I feel just want to be pedantic because you like to rile up a reaction. We're all on the same team here. Please stop looking for a fight and lets get back to teasing our friends for not being beer geeks. Thanks.

One time this guy on a Home Brew forum told me he didn't want to start a fight by calling me pedantic, and implying that my observation was ridiculous. What irony. :fro:

 

[jerrodm]

There was a Vietnam vet who use to do the same thing at a place here in Madison called The Buckeye. It's since closed but that guy was like clockwork; he would come in, say hello to everyone and everyone would hello back (NORM!), order his Miller Lite with a glass of ice, sip, OK SEE YOU EVERYONE HAVE A GOOD NIGHT.

I asked him about it once and he said it's from when he was overseas and got really tired of drinking warm beer.

My mom hasn't been a drinker for years--we've had our share of alcoholism-related issues in the family, so our household was dry from the time I was about eight years old onwards. But she will usually try my homebrews when she comes out to visit. One time she was drinking a cream ale I had made especially for her visit and she said, "This is really good. It would be great on a hot summer day, in a glass with ice." Apparently that's the way they used to drink beer all the time when she was younger...oh well! I gotta love her, cause she's my mom, but that hurt a little bit.

 

[Getzinator]

Man, I guess this ice thing is a lot more popular than I ever knew about. Who would've thought.

Another thing that happens all the time: My one friend cannot for the life of him remember anything about beer. He likes belgians the best, but won't stop buying IPA's. Every single time he is surprised and says "I don't like the finish" when he really means "it's too hoppy for me". We just finished a case of Sierra Nevada Beer Camp, and he kept opening the Floral IPA. Inevitably he wouldn't like it.
When I explained it to him (again) that he doesn't like hoppy beers like IPA's, he just replied "Ah right, because I don't like vegetables."

Then he told me last night he just picked up a pack of Hop Devil.

 

[masonsjax]

Sorry for my unprovoked rant.

How's this for irony? I have a BMC clone on tap right now, and absolutely love it!

 

[TyTanium]

EDIT: This is my 3,000th post! Suppose that's a stupid comment on how much time I've spent on this place, haha. Time to have a beer.

 

[Getzinator]

Hahaha, oh well. Now everyone pay attention to my other posts, and not all this other off topic stuff.

 

[BudzAndSudz]

Sorry, my rant was misdirected, you're not the intended target.
Trolls never seem to realize that we're on to them until told directly that the jig is up.

How's this for irony? I have a BMC clone on tap right now, and absolutely love it!

I hope the intended target wasn't me (I'm guessing it may have been since I'm the only one talking about competitions and BMC). I was not trolling in my comments, they were genuine. If they riled someone up, then they need some serious introspection on how a stranger on the Internet could have gotten their goose so easily and accidentally.

 

[h4mmy86]

"Look! It's got head on it and everything!"

...well, duh

 

[sweed]

"looks like a guiness!" said co-working referring to my brown ale!

 

[jerrodm]

"looks like a guiness!" said co-working referring to my brown ale!

Well, compared to BMC it does look MORE like a Guinness...credit him/her for at least that much.

 

[Getzinator]

"looks like a guiness!" said co-working referring to my brown ale!

I had to laugh out loud at that one. Always funny when someone makes such a general comment.

 

[slunkmonky]

Clam juice and tomato juice mixed? What's to not like?

I made a Cerveza style ale once, which is probably one of the cheapest beers you can make as absolutely no good beer ingredients are capable of being grown in Mexico. And when it was done I,,, enjoyed,,? one on its own but the rest of them were for micheladas. A little lime, worcestershire sauce, maggi sauce if you can find it instead, Tabasco and salt the rim of the glass. I was never into such things but after moving to Texas and broadening my tex-mex horizons, and it being 104 degrees like 400 days a year, you develop a taste for such things. But, yeah, that beer cost something like $16 to make so it was just a base for that cocktail and cheaper than corona by the case which I refuse to buy.

I'm vegetarian so brainless-animal or not, I don't drink clams. Also, most worch sauces aren't veg.

And if I made a porter and someone poured tomato juice in it I'd point to the door and say 'out'.

 

[mpride1911]

A Facebook message from my friend's mother when she found out that I was going to start brewing after I returned home from Afghanistan:

"good luck with your beer making, but igotta tell you i don't think you will ever beat Bud Light." [SIC]

Safe to say that in my opinion, and of my friend's around me, I succeeded in that with my first all grain batch.

 

[MeatyPortion]

I found out the other night that Bud Light Platinum is perfect as a base for adding blueberry-lemonade Mio.

 

[Sevenal]

Talking to a buddy about the IPA I was fermenting
co-worker asked - what is that?
Me - India Pale Ale
long pause
co-worker - so is that made on the reservation?

 

[jerrodm]

Talking to a buddy about the IPA I was fermenting
co-worker asked - what is that?
Me - India Pale Ale
long pause
co-worker - so is that made on the reservation?

For the win!

 

[CreamyGoodness]

Oof!

 

[Billy-Klubb]

Talking to a buddy about the IPA I was fermenting
co-worker asked - what is that?
Me - India Pale Ale
long pause
co-worker - so is that made on the reservation?

that, indeed, is win worthy. shoulda told him the best IPA comes from Pine Ridge, SD. the poorer the res, the better the beer tastes!

 

[msa8967]

Talking to a buddy about the IPA I was fermenting
co-worker asked - what is that?
Me - India Pale Ale
long pause
co-worker - so is that made on the reservation?

If you get this reply again mention that it is made with peyote hops that can only be grown on reservations due to US patent laws. (Sorry for the mispelling).

 

[russrob81]

Talking to my partner at work yesterday about my 8.3% wee heavy. She says oh you're making malt liquor?

We do not live in Texas and she is not from there

 

[newb]

Talking to my partner at work yesterday about my 8.3% wee heavy. She says oh you're making malt liquor?

We do not live in Texas and she is not from there

Yeah that's a dumb comment, but might not be entirely her fault. Jersey has or used to have a dumb labeling law like that involving a certain ABV % threshold being labeled as such, and it still really confuses beer ignorant people haha

 

[Tiber_Brew]

Again that is merely personal preference because IMHO I would say when you can make a big 10% ABV RIS aged in a bourbon barrel that still drinks silky smooth, then you have reached "brewer" status even if you never brewed one -am light haha, but I would be wrong for the same reason you are, neither guy would be Any less of a brewer just have their own specialty born from their preference, now someone please back to the stupid comments to make us all laugh

I don't think that's what paulster meant.

 

[skillzman1]

I have a recipe I call Blackened Vanilla Stout...its quite good...I cant keep enough of it brewed,my friends/family always clamour for more. At our 20th wedding anniversary party 2 cases of it were gone and all the store bought brews sat in the coolers..
that being said...I was quite proud of it and took some to a work related customer of mine...guy owns a nice restaurant...used to be a bar tender...figured he would appreciate it.

his reply...'Whew ..that s**t was like a punch in the face....cant you brew some Budweiser'

like why would I put the exspense and effort into trying to brew budweiser when you could buy it for less cost?

 

[newb]

oh I see